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jimlynchIf Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »
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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays

by Lionel Trilling

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays Cover

ISBN13: 9780374257941
ISBN10: 0374257949
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Synopsis:

With this re-publication of Lionel Trilling's finest essays, Leon Wieseltier offers readers of many generations a rich overview of Trilling's achievement. The exhilarating essays collected here include justly celebrated masterpieces — on Mansfield Park and on "Why We Read Jane Austen"; on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Isaac Babel; on Keats, Wordsworth, Eliot, Frost; on "Art and Neurosis"; and the famous Preface to Trilling's book The Liberal Imagination.

Description:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 557-559) and index.

Table of Contents

The America of John Dos Passos — Hemingway and his critics — T.S. Eliot's politics — The immortality of ode — Kipling — Reality in America — Art and neurosis — Manners, morals, and the novel — The Kinsey report — Huckleberry Finn — The Princess Casamassima — Wordsworth and the Rabbis — William Dean Howells and the roots of modern taste — The poet as hero: Keats in his letters — George Orwell and the politics of truth — The situation of the American intellectual at the present time — Mansfield Park — Isaac Babel — The morality of inertia — "That smile of Parmenides made me think" — The last lover — A speech on Robert Frost: a cultural episode — On the teaching of modern literature — The Leavis-Snow controversy — The fate of pleasure — James Joyce in his letters — Mind in the modern world — Art, will, and necessity — Why we read Jane Austen.

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ISBN:
9780374257941
Subtitle:
(selected essays )
Introduction:
Wieseltier, Leon
Editor:
Wieseltier, Leon
Author:
Wieseltier, Leon
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
American
Subject:
20th century
Subject:
Trilling, lionel, 1905-1975
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
106-111
Publication Date:
2000
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 572 p.
Dimensions:
9.28x6.40x1.77 in. 2.03 lbs.

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